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mate: a standalone construct

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mate1 CONSTRUCTMate (breeding)DAVIES ET AL. · CHOICE

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Behavioural ecology

A breeding partner, chosen under selection

In behavioural ecology a mate is an individual's breeding partner, and mate choice is the process by which individuals, often females, select partners on the basis of traits that signal quality, compatibility, or resources. Davies, Krebs, and West's An introduction to behavioural ecology sets out the sexual-selection theory that explains why such preferences evolve and how they shape ornament and courtship. The referent is a reproductive partnership and the selective process behind it, unrelated to a chess ending or a brewed holly leaf.[1]

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The partner chosen and the selective pressures acting on that choice
Recovery means
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Studied through mate-choice experiments, preference functions, and the fitness consequences of partner traits

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References

  1. Davies, N. B., Krebs, J. R., & West, S. A. (2012). An introduction to behavioural ecology (4th ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781405114165

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